The CENSUS HISTORY PROJECT focuses on the exploration, extraction, and analysis of U.S. Census data for further research purposes. Our users group takes on a critical historical approach to understanding population-level data on the United States, the methods used to gather the data, and the measures applied to explore, extract, and analyze the data.
primary users:
initiated: fall 2022
Contact us at quant-shop [at] gmail [dot] com
Funding for this project is provided by Data.org and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
api.R
helps new users generate and store a US Census API
key.
You should never share your Census API key. Follow the steps below:
Set up an environment variable to hold your api key with
usethis::edit_r_environ()
Transfer information into .Renviron (pop-up
file)
CENSUS_API_KEY='your_api_key' into the
.Renviron fileInsert your census API key via
Sys.getenv("CENSUS_API_KEY")
Images from the U.S. Census Bureau and the California African American Museum1.